I saw this on the Today Show yesterday morning.
I had a family friend who had a litter of Dalmatian puppies. Dini's very first (and last) litter and she had 16 puppies and ALL survived. My friends nearly died, because Dalmatians are difficult and 16 or 18 that's just too many! Eventually they got most of them good homes but for a few months is was beyond chaos. (And in the end they kept 2 or 3 of the puppies that couldn't find homes or were returned from their homes; that was pretty insane too.)